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Categories: American Poets Laureate, Chicago State University faculty, Northeastern Illinois University faculty, Poets Laureate of Illinois, United States National Medal of Arts recipients
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Gwendolyn Brooks  Brooks, Gwendolyn  Gwen Brooks  Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
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Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was an American poet, author, and teacher. Wikipedia
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Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was an American poet, author, and teacher. Wikipedia
African American writer Wikidata
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AWARD RECEIVED
National Women's Hall of Fame
Guggenheim Fellowship
Jefferson Lecture
United States Poet Laureate
Langston Hughes Medal
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CAUSE OF DEATH
cancer
CHILD
Nora Brooks Blakely
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
United States
EDUCATED AT
Wendell Phillips Academy High School
Englewood Technical Prep Academy
Kennedy–King College
Hyde Park Academy High School
EMPLOYER
Chicago State University
ETHNIC GROUP
African-American
FAMILY NAME
Brooks
FIELD OF WORK
poetry
GIVEN NAME
Gwendolyn
INFLUENCED BY
Hughes
Wright
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
English
MANNER OF DEATH
natural causes
MEMBER OF
American Academy of Arts and Letters
NOMINATED FOR
National Book Award for Poetry
OCCUPATION
writer
teacher
novelist
poet
ON FOCUS LIST OF WIKIMEDIA PROJECT
Art+Feminism
PLACE OF BIRTH
Topeka
PLACE OF BURIAL
Lincoln Cemetery
PLACE OF DEATH
Chicago
RESIDENCE
Topeka
Illinois
Michigan Boulevard Garden Apartments
SEX OR GENDER
female
WRITING LANGUAGE
English
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Gwendolyn Brooks
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Gwendolyn Brooks
Wikipedia Redirections
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Brooks, Gwendolyn, Gwen Brooks, Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
Wikidata Alias
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Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks

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